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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

In the sphere of Geeta Dutt’s non-filmy songs (NFS), I was aware of only one of her songs hauley hauley hawaayen doley during my younger days, thanks to the radio. Much later, I had bought 78 RPM record of this NFS sometime in early 70s. If I remember correctly, this record had ‘jamuna ke teer kaanhaa aao’ on the other side. So I became aware of one more NFS of her. Probably those days of early 50s, the singers will have to sing at least two NFS songs to bring out one 78 RPM record. With the advent of internet, we have access to some more of her NFS based on which I have a feeling that compared with other playback singers of her time like Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle, Mohammed Rafi, Talat Mehmood, Mukesh, Manna Dey etc, she has cut comparatively very few Hindi NFS discs. I found that none of her NFS other than the two I referred to above, were known to me though they are beautifully rendered by her. I have recently heard ‘ye hawaa ye fizaa ye bahaaren’ composed by V Balsara and I liked it very much.
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New year comes only once in 365 days and as such the chances of there being too many new year songs are slim, but such songs are there in Hindi movies. We have discussed such songs in the previous new year occasions and we have a few such songs lined up for this new year of 2013 as well.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

gayaa december, jaane do
aayee january, aane do

Thus ended my last post from yesterday, and I suppose it is only right to begin on the very same note, where we left off. . . last year :).

Greetings all and welcome to 2013, and we kick off another round of this adventure in music.
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“Mastaana” (1954) was a Black and White movies production. It was directed by H S Rawail. The movie had Motilal, Nigar Sultana, Kuldip Kaur, Chandrashekhar, Yashodhara Katju, Sunder, Rinkoo, Gope, Chaman Puri, Master Romi, Tiwari etc in it.
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